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Convene 2025 – Register Today!
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May 31 | Everett Community College
Reconnect with Episcopalians from across the Diocese, and join us for this exciting event open to everyone!
Gain new resources and support and spend time learning from and networking with churches from every corner of Western Washington! Convene 2025 will feature multiple workshop sessions throughout this day-long opportunity for learning and connection, preparing us all for the future of our communities, helping us discover (and rediscover!) new ideas, and giving us the time and space to share information about programs and ministry opportunities.
Convene 2025 is designed for leaders, potential leaders in congregations, and interested others – clergy, staff, vestries and bishop’s committees, administrators, members of convention, and anyone who wants to reconnect with others in the Diocese over ways to strengthen our congregations. So put together a team from your congregation and get ready to join us on May 31 as we Convene at Everett Community College.
Have questions about the 2025 Diocesan Convene? Please contact Matt Koski, Resource Coordinator, mkoski@ecww.org.
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Have a workshop idea you want to present at Convene? Fill out the workshop request form below!
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Zimzum Discipleship: Practices for a Christ-Center Life
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Join us on our new three-year discipleship series on zimzum discipleship, of intentionally making space to live as a faithful apprentice of Jesus. Visit the new home for our zimzum discipleship series where you can find resources, community, and more at the links below!
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May 3, 8:30 am – 2:00 pm | Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle
Cathedral Day is a “family reunion” for Episcopalians from across western Washington. It’s a time for connecting across congregations and experiencing all your cathedral has to offer. Cathedral Day celebrates the idea of pilgrimage, with Saint Mark’s serving as your sacred destination. We can’t wait to welcome you to YOUR cathedral!
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Lent, Holy Week, and Easter Services Across the Diocese
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Join our churches and worshiping communities from across the Diocese of Olympia this Lent, Holy Week, and Easter! More services will be added throughout the season, so check back for more updates!
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Register Now for June’s Weeklong Session of the
College for Congregational Development!
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Registration is open for the June Week-long Session held on June 8th-13th at Dumas Bay Centre, Federal Way. This year’s program focus will be on congregational identity, engagement with context and culture, and the intersection of our identity with the diversity of those we may want to serve. If you have any questions please contact Matt Koski, mkoski@ecww.org.
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Celebrating God’s Love for All Creation
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As we look ahead to Holy Week, the Triduum, and Eastertide, God’s promise of New Creation for us and indeed the whole cosmos is an invitation into transformative discipleship in these times. And, as April is Earth Month, we know our vocation to tend and keep the garden is really a lifelong call.
Follow the link below for a variety of resources for liturgy, formation, and advocacy to celebrate God’s gift of Creation and engage in taking seriously our responsibility for its care in every season.
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Disability Justice Ministry Convening
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Building on the interest from last year’s Diocesan Convention we invite you to gather as we dream of disability justice in our churches, diocese, and wider community.
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Is your congregation offering a summer program for children, youth, or all generations together? Are you planning a Vacation Bible School, summer camp, or other whole-church program?
We want to know about it!
The Office of the Bishop will be gathering these details onto a single webpage so we can help you get the word out and promote what’s being offered in Episcopal churches throughout Western Washington. Fill out this form and let us know about the summer-happenings at your congregation!
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St. Luke’s, Seattle Is Raising the Roof With Your Help!
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St. Luke’s, Seattle reached an important milestone in their building project! Read more about the January 30 Topping Off Ceremony, their new affordable family housing units, and learn how you can be part of Building a Place Where Love Dwells!
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Appeal for Support from the Refugee Resettlement Office
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Helping a refugee family is the ultimate way to welcome the stranger and to serve those in need with love and compassion. Today, we ask for your consideration in responding to an urgent and profound opportunity.
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Underhill House Lenten Invitation
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This season of Lent, Underhill House invites you to incorporate times of quiet into your week. The spiritual writer Evelyn Underhill once wrote, “Without silence, the inward stillness in which God educates and molds us is impossible!” At Underhill House, we believe that taking time to pause for prayer, silence, and other forms of contemplation is an essential practice for faith formation – and, it doesn’t have to be done alone. We invite you to join a community of guests, Listeners, and partners who experience the nourishment that quiet brings.
To learn more, visit the link below, or visit our location at All Pilgrims Christian Church (one mile south of Saint Mark’s Cathedral) on Thursdays from 12:00 to 2:00 pm.
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A Great Way to Conclude
Earth Week!
A Retreat with Jesus in Nature: Monastic Images of an
Earthy Christ
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April 26, 9:30 am | St. Placid Priory, Lacey
Join Fr. Samuel Torvend (St. Paul’s Seattle) for this engaging retreat in which participants will explore the previously hidden story of monastic reflection on the presence of Jesus Christ with the creation. In this retreat, participants will consider the work of Benedict of Nursia, the Venerable Bede, Walafrid Strabo, and Hildegard of Bingen – Benedictines whose writings, music, and art reveal an earthy Christ, the center of our worship, prayer, and ethics.
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Books Available from The Rev. Peter D. Snow
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Jesus of Nazareth: Poking The Hornets’ Nest and Jesus of Nazareth: Kicking the Hornets’ Nest, by The Rev. Peter D. Snow, are now available on Amazon. These works represent a fresh approach to narrative theology—a term he has coined to describe his method of integrating modern biblical scholarship with the art of storytelling, allowing the Gospel narrative to unfold in new and thought-provoking ways and the characters to tell their own stories.
Learn more and order your copies via the QR code below.
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Live-Streaming Services
Across the Diocese
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As more of our churches have moved to live-streaming their services, we’ve created a directory of our churches with services times and links to where you can join for Sunday morning and weekday prayer.
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Compline, Sung by The Compline Choir
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Sundays, 9:30 pm | Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle
Sung prayers for the close of the day, offered every Sunday at 9:30 pm in person and via live-stream.
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Taize Prayer Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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April 8; 7:00 pm | Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle
Join us for Taizé Prayer celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Trans Day of Visibility Service
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April 12; 11:00 am | St. Peter’s, Seattle
Join St. Peter’s, Seattle and diocesan trans and nonbinary leaders for a special Trans Day of Visibility liturgy.
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Sacred Waters Volunteer Retreat
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April 18, 4:00 pm – April 19 1:00 pm | Sacred Waters Center
Any level of work gratefully accepted. We’ll be in the garden, cleaning, organizing, etc.
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April 26, 11:00 am | St. Andrew’s House, Union
Sacred Waters Center Open House, Saturday, April 26, 11:00 am-3:00 pm.
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Ellen Bass: The Intimate Web of Humanity, Healing, and Hope
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May 1, 7:00 pm | Saint Mark’s Cathedral
$15 Tickets
Ellen Bass: The Intimate Web of Humanity, Healing, and Hope
A Thursday evening Wisdom School event in the Cathedral nave.
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Work Weekend at Huston Camp & Conference Center
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May 2-4 | Camp Huston, Gold Bar
During Work Weekend we spruce up camp by working on staff-directed projects on the buildings and grounds.
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Reimagining Preaching Conference
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May 3, 1:00 pm | Calvin Presbyterian, Shoreline
$69 by March 15 / $99 after March 15
A practical, skills-based conference equipping clergy, church staff, & lay preachers to bring the Word to life in Cascadia.
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May 10; 9:00 am | Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle | $50 Registration (Scholarships Available)
Join us for an in-depth exploration of the Godly Play curriculum and methodology.
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St. Mark’s Creation Care Ministry Climate Conversation
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April 10, 6:30 pm | Virtual Event
Join our April Climate Conversation to learn more about Earth Day, learn about planting, and discuss options to celebrate Earth Day as well as to plant flowers, vegetables, shrubs or other plants.
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Memorial Day Weekend at Huston
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May 24-26 | Camp Huston, Gold Bar | $75-250 Registration
A Memorial Day weekend get-away at Huston Camp & Conference Center for individuals, families, friends.
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Diocesan Youth Sailing Trip: 2025
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August 27-30 | Pudget Sound | $250 Registration
Come sail with us aboard the Adventuress!
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“Sacred Beauty” Photography Exhibit at St. Barnabas
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Now Through June 8 | St. Barnabas, Bainbridge Island
Nine stunning photographs by The Rev. Jim Friedrich of religious art and architecture are now on display in the St. Barnabas parlor through the Day of Pentecost, June 8.
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Sundays, 9:30 am | Redeemer, Kenmore
Help our community to find courage and resilience for the deeply challenging times that are upon us.
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Sundays, 9:30 am | Redeemer, Kenmore
Join us as we explore peace and wholeness!
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Contemplative Worship in the Spirit of Taizé
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First Sunday of the Month, 5:00 pm | St. Andrew’s, Seattle
Join St. Andrew’s, Seattle for contemplative worship in the spirit of Taizé.
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Sundays, 5:30 pm | Epiphany, Seattle
Join Epiphany, Seattle every Sunday at 5:30 pm for Choral Evensong, followed by a reception.
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Compline with Trinity Choir
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First Thursdays, 8:15 pm | Trinity, Seattle
A quiet, contemplative service led by the Trinity Choir.
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Jesus and Autocracy: Holy Witnessing in Unholy Times
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April 9, 5:30 pm | St. Andrew’s, Seattle
Lenten Prayers, Supper, and Class Series on “Jesus & Autocracy : Holy Witnessing in Unholy Times.”
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Wednesday Night Lenten Program at SJB
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April 9, 6:00 pm | St. John the Baptist, Seattle
Wednesday Night Healing Eucharist and Program on recognizing the face of God in every person, even those with whom we disagree.
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Saint Mark’s Concert Series: Seven Last Words of Christ
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April 13, 4:30 pm | Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle | $20-25 Tickets
Skyros Quartet will perform Joseph Haydn’s own arrangement for string quartet of his Seven Last Words of Christ — a meditation on Jesus’ utterances from the cross, excerpted from each of the four gospels — in observance of the coming Holy Week on Palm Sunday, April 13 at 4:30 pm.
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May 3, 10:00 am | St. James, Kent
Love & Plants for all – Join St. James, Kent, and the community for a day of fun, food, fellowship, and local resources, inspired by the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi’s compassion for all.
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Saint Mark’s Concert Series: All Bach on the Flentrop Organ
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May 9, 7:30 pm | Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle | $20-25 Tickets
Saint Mark’s annual All Bach on the Flentrop Organ concert will be performed by Jonathan Moyer on Friday, May 9 at 7:30 pm.
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Choral Evensong & Recital
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May 29, 7:00 pm | St. Luke’s Memorial, Tacoma
The choirs of St. Luke’s Memorial and St. John’s, Gig Harbor, with organist Michael Plagerman, will sing Choral Evensong for the Feast of the Ascension, followed by a short organ recital by Michael Plagerman.
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Caring for God’s World: St. Thomas Church’s 2025 Summer Camp
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June 23, 9:00 am | St. Thomas, Medina
Children ages 4 thru 5th grade, join us from June 23-27 for a week of creation care camp at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Medina!
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Vacation Bible School 2025: Camp Firelight
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July 7-11 | St. Andrew’s, Seattle
Join Saint Andrew’s, Seattle, for Vacation Bible School 2025!
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2025 TENS Pledge Campaign Materials Ready to Use TODAY!
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Did you ever have news that was so exciting that you could not wait to share it with others? The Good News that fills our spirits with joy is about the radical abundance, abiding love, and healing power that Jesus shares with us when we respond to his call to follow him. All of the gifts that we have been given are ready to burst forth to serve our neighbors and share our love with a world in need
The Diocese of Olympia’s annual membership in TENS (The Episcopal Network for Stewardship) means every congregation in the Diocese has full and FREE access to their 2025 pledge campaign resources. 2025 password is Luke1:46 (no spaces, case sensitive).
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Indigenous Artist-in-Residence Program
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Late Summer/Early Fall 2025 | Holden Village, Lake Chelan
This program is a two- to four-week self-guided on-site residency at Holden Village located in the valley of the North Cascade Mountains for Indigenous artists working in a variety of mediums. The program blends opportunities for independent creative work in a private studio space with engagement with the Village community. The application period is open now and will close on May 15 for residencies in late summer & early fall of 2025. Learn more at the link below.
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2026 Portuguese Camino Pilgrimage
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May 22-31, 2026 | $2,995-3,495 Registration
2026 Portuguese Camino Pilgrimage dates have been set for May 22-31, 2026!
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The Diocese of Olympia takes its responsibility for the safety of its people seriously. The Safe Church, Safe Communities training program is now online and teaches how to identify and prevent abuse within the church community. This training is required for all canonically resident and licensed clergy and for non-clergy who have a key to the church facility, including, but not limited to: vestry and bishop’s committee members; church staff; Eucharistic ministers/visitors; and anyone who works with minors in any capacity. Any other interested parishioners are encouraged to take this free training. Certification is valid for three years and then a renewal is required. If you have any questions, please reach out to: safechurch@ecww.org.
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ITEMS AVAILABLE / SEEKING ITEMS
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Available Items from St. James, Sedro-Woolley
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Saint James, Sedro-Woolley lost the use of their sanctuary in 2016 because of structural problems. That building was torn down but the altars – one from the main sanctuary and one from the children’s chapel were saved along with the church bell and all the stained-glass windows. Their stained-glass windows now grace the memorial garden at Saint Columba’s, Kent, but the two altars and the church bell have been in storage, awaiting a new home.
If your congregation is interested in providing a new home for these items, please let our Diocesan Property Manager, the Rev. Dr. Dennis S. Tierney know of your interest by writing to him at dtierney@ecww.org. Here are some candid photos to pique your interest. More detailed information can be provided upon show of interest.
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After rearranging things in their sanctuary, St. Paul’s, Bremerton has two church pews with kneelers that they are hoping to find new homes for! They’re in good condition, you will just need to haul them away yourself. For more information, contact St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Bremerton at stpaul700@gmail.com.
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Christ Church Seattle is renovating, and we would like to find a new home for our pews. There are 24 plus 2 pew frontals. The pews are solid oak, with kneelers, 34 inches tall, 22 inches deep, and 130 inches (almost 11 feet) long. Free, but you’ll need to move them. Please contact cwpratt@proton.me for more info.
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Seeking Wonder, Love, & Praise Hymnal
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The St. John’s, Olympia Music Director, Steve O’Connor, has requested 20 pew-edition copies of the Wonder, Love, & Praise hymnal. They are hoping to beg or borrow (permanently) extra, unused copies that might be knocking around somewhere, if at all possible. They would like to offset the cost and potential waste of ordering brand-new copies if there are a number of them not being used at another church. They are willing to pick them up in the Olympia/Tacoma/Federal Way/Puyallup/Gig Harbor etc. areas.
Contact information:
Anna Okrasinski Maddox
Parish Administrator
anna@stjohnsoly.org
360-352-8527
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The following job opportunities are now open at churches and organizations across Western Washington.
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